Zagging: Building Advocacy Through Digital and Social Media

Author(s): Guy Danhoff, Lauren Krebs

Zagging: Building Advocacy Through Digital and Social Media serves as a resource manual guidebook for students, professionals, and organizational advocacy leaders looking to develop their ability to effectively manage various digital and social media communication tools during and beyond the COVID-1...

New Venture Launchpad

Author(s): Kevin Cox, Roland Kidwell

New Venture Launchpad provides the next generation of entrepreneurs a complete and contemporary guide to launching a new business venture. Built on a foundation of widely validated and empirically derived techniques and strategies, the workbook and associated program provide entrepreneurs with a pro...

Think Better, Write Better

Author(s): Robin Jenkins

Thinking rationally and writing clearly are two sides of the same coin, Both have tremendous value as career and life skills, in that those who do them well are more likely to be successful. Unfortunately, surveys of employers show that most people, even college graduates, are not particularly profi...

Foundations of Special Education: Understanding Students with Exceptionalities

Author(s): Scott Arnett, Michael Fitzpatrick, Nena Raschelle Theoharis, PENNY CRAIG

This textbook introduces preservice and inservice educators to the theories, philosophies, concepts, and ongoing needs of children and adults with exceptionalities. The first two Chapters address the foundation, litigation, and federal policies that helped shape what is now known as special educatio...

Elementary School Teaching: Plan, Teach, Inspire

Author(s): Elaine Pierce Chakonas

Elementary School Teaching: Plan, Teach, Inspire prepares future elementary school teachers to plan instruction and teach diverse learners in today's classrooms.  Special focus is given to teaching students with a variety of needs and abilities, including English language learners, students with dis...

Win, Lose, or Draw

Author(s): Karen Holmes

Win, Lose, or Draw is a non-algebra based math course that fulfills a general education mathematics requirement. The class structure is discovery-based with students working in groups rather than lecture-dependent, appealing to students for whom math is not a strength.   The theme of the course invo...

Our World, Our Music

Author(s): Robert Elliott

Our World, Our Music relates historical and discipline-specific concepts to students’ existing knowledge gained through cultural participation. It addresses past and present, Western and non-Western societies and cultures, examining music in particular, the arts in general, and the societies that su...

The Music Business: Follow the Money - How the Industry Works

Author(s): B.G. Woods

Amazing advancements in digital technology have made the market for consumers who may select to use music and entertainment products is huge – around 8 billion.The changes in technology, consumer behaviors, and how music and entertainment are monetized globally have affected the structure of the mus...

Hospitality Financial Management and Contextualized Decision Making

Author(s): Nan Hua, Barry Bloom, Agnes DeFranco, Toni Repetti, Twila Mae Logan, Dipendra Mann, Peng Liu, Prashant Das, Arun Upneja

This textbook encompasses four parts, introducing finance theories and contextualized decision making with a clear articulation as to how, individually and collectively, they are shaping the future of hospitality financial management. Part I sets the foundation of hospitality financial management by...

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education

Author(s): CATHIE ROBERTSON

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education explores early childhood safety and nutrition in a variety of facets, including indoor and outdoor safety, emergency procedures, nutrition and food safety, as well as a chapter on holistic wellness in early childhood education. Topics such as diversity...